"Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Men Quotes #Monkeys Quotes #Bears Quotes

“It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.”
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jan 22, 2017
“To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.”
“Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.”

Source : Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge
“There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.”
“What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?”

Source : Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated
“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.”
“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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